[gentoo-dev] Does anyone use kxicq?

[gentoo-dev] Does anyone use kxicq?

[Dan Armak]

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Hello everyone,

The kxicq project, though perhaps not officially dead, seems rather catatonic 
(admittedly i haven't tried contacting the developers). The last release was 
over a year ago for kde2, and their cvs hasn't seen any activity for two 
months now; we have a patched snapshot of their CVS that works for kde3, but 
now there's a bugreport against it (#13105). There are several icq clients in 
portage (licq and sim have qt/kde interfaces) and I wouldn't have any 
objection to dropping one that isn't really actively developed anymore. Of 
course, that's likely the maintainer speaking :-)

I'm not saying I've decided to remove the kxicq ebuild, but I'd like to know 
how many people (if at all) use it. If people reply to this saying "yes I use 
it and don't want to switch", the decision will of course be taken out of my 
hands, I won't decide to remove it from portage then. So please mail me if 
that is the case.

Someone, please forward this to gento-user as I'm not subscribed there. If 
you're reading this anywhere other than the gentoo-dev list, please cc your 
replies to me. (No need to cc replies that don't say you use it.)

Thanks,

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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
Matan, Israel
Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Does anyone use kxicq?

[Paul de Vrieze]

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On Friday 31 January 2003 22:28, Dan Armak wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> The kxicq project, though perhaps not officially dead, seems rather
> catatonic (admittedly i haven't tried contacting the developers). The last
> release was over a year ago for kde2, and their cvs hasn't seen any
> activity for two months now; we have a patched snapshot of their CVS that
> works for kde3, but now there's a bugreport against it (#13105). There are
> several icq clients in portage (licq and sim have qt/kde interfaces) and I
> wouldn't have any objection to dropping one that isn't really actively
> developed anymore. Of course, that's likely the maintainer speaking :-)
>
> I'm not saying I've decided to remove the kxicq ebuild, but I'd like to
> know how many people (if at all) use it. If people reply to this saying
> "yes I use it and don't want to switch", the decision will of course be
> taken out of my hands, I won't decide to remove it from portage then. So
> please mail me if that is the case.

I did use it, but it allready was buggy without qt-3.1 There is one bug that I 
reported at least 5 months ago including a fix that involved reading messages 
send by the yabber icq conduit. It is still not fixed in cvs. I believe this 
project is dead. In the mean time I switched, as kxicq is basically dead. It 
does have one usefull feature though in being able to use server based friend 
lists.

Paul

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Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net



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